[HPFGU-OTChatter] Was: What is the greatest HP prediction ever?

[Sue Wartell]

Mary said...

Which leads me to the most irritating thing at the end of HBP: Harry saying  

he has to go it alone and trying to cut himself off from others. This is the  

exact opposite of his speech to the DA in their first meeting: "I had help 

with  all that stuff.

 

Was anyone else annoyed with this? Or do we just accept this as the hubris  

that is Harry's (hopefully non-fatal) flaw?

                 

Now me:
I took this as Harry's warped perspective - he's just been traumatized - again - by losing someone very important to him, and he's hurting and feeling guilty.  His first reaction it to protect those closest to him by pushing them away.  First Ginny, then Ron and Hermione.  Ron and Hermione talk back, and tell him he's being foolish.  Ginny did not argue, but I had the feeling that she wasn't intending to let him get away with it, either.  His logic was even more flawed with respect to distancing himself from her - IF Voldemort finds out they are close????  COME ON, Harry, get a brain... the entire school was talking about it (including Malfoy, I'm sure), and Snape was riding him about it indirectly during his detentions (or at least Harry thought that was the reason for his snide remarks about missing out on all the opportunities afforded by the good weather).  For anyone old enough to remember Simon and Garfunkel - " I am a rock, I am an island, and a rock feels no pain,
 and an island never cries." (1)

He did the same sort of thing in OotP when he was afraid that Voldemort was possessing him, and they finally put a stop to it when he didn't come to his senses on his own.

I don't think he can actually carry through on this resolve, but it's going to take a little time to get over it.  (and if you can't tell, I was annoyed with his pushing Ginny away.)

Sue,  in Columbus, waiting for the snow (hopefully, but not expectantly...)

(1)
Another bit of the lyrics from "I am a Rock":
 I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
Its laughter and its loving I disdain.


 



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